Sandwich Chamber names Jay Pateakos executive director

SANDWICH — The Sandwich Chamber of Commerce has hired its new executive director.

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By ROBERT GOLD

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By ROBERT GOLD

Posted Feb. 26, 2014 at 2:00 AM

By ROBERT GOLD
Posted Feb. 26, 2014 at 2:00 AM

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SANDWICH — The Sandwich Chamber of Commerce has hired its new executive director.

Jay Pateakos, the vice president of business development at the Fall River Area Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the past four years, will start March 17 at his Cape job.

Pateakos replaces Kate Bavelock, who recently left after leading the Sandwich chamber since 2008.

In a press release, chamber board member Debra Davies said there were more than 70 candidates for the job.

She lauded Pateakos' "experience and enthusiasm."

Before joining the Fall River chamber, Pateakos was a staff reporter at the Herald News in Fall River for six years.

At the newspaper, he covered business, education, town government and crime.

Pateakos said he started several different workshops and seminars through the Fall River Chamber such as sessions on unemployment insurance, young entrepreneurs and open meeting law. He expects to develop similar initiatives on the Cape.

"There are a lot of things that I'd like to accomplish," Pateakos said. "Basically everyone in Sandwich should be a member. It is about raising that level of awareness."

Pateakos, who leaves his Fall River post shortly before taking on the Cape job, handled multiple duties at vice president of business development, such as new member recruitment, retention, business profiles and columns, and member referrals.

A resident of Marion, he currently writes for the Southcoast Insider Magazine and the Sentinel newspaper of Mattapoisett and Rochester.